File sharing between Leopard and Snow Leopard

I have a G5 and a Powerbook running the latest version of Leopard and they are both on the same network as a Mac Mini and Macbook both running Snow Leopard. The computers on Snow Leopard have no problem accessing the shared folder on the computers running Leopard but the opposite has not worked. I can't access either the mini or the macbooks shared folder from either my G5 or Powerbook. I set the firewall on all computers to allow all incoming connections to resolve this but have not been successful. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix?

I couldn't find anything in the system log at all and I tried the appfirewall.log and it isn't there. It could be because the firewall is turned off therefore it isn't logging anything.
I decided to try the system log on the G5 with Leopard running instead and got the following message pop up in the Console immediately after a failed connect:
Oct 8 00:24:15 daniel-kennedys-power-mac-g5 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder[139]: SharePointBrowser::handleOpenCallBack returned 22
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